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EU agrees to extend Russia sanctions to January 2016: Sources
EU member states agreed Wednesday to extend damaging economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis by another six months to the end of January 2016, European sources said.Ambassadors from the 28 European Union nations reached a “consensus” on the legal text extending the sanctions from July, which is expected to be...
European leaders to focus on Russia at security summit
European leaders are expected to tackle security challenges ranging from a resurgent Russia to global terrorism at the 10th annual GLOBSEC Global Security Forum in the Slovak capital Bratislava this weekend.The conference comes as Russia and the West are locked in their worst standoff since the collapse of the Soviet Union because of the conflict...
Germany warns Russia against arms ‘spiral of escalation’
Germany’s foreign minister warned Wednesday that Russia risked spurring a “spiral of escalation” with the West after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was boosting its nuclear arsenal.Frank-Walter Steinmeier told news website Spiegel Online that Putin’s announcement was “unnecessary and certainly not a...
IVF doctors aghast at 65-year-old mum of quadruplets
Experts at a top fertility conference are dismayed at the case of a German woman who after having 13 children has had IVF quadruplets at the age of 65.The episode damages the reputation of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), which has enabled millions to know the joy of parenthood, they said.”It’s the kind of tale which makes headlines...
Russia does not want arms race with US: Putin aide
Russia does not want to enter a costly new arms race with the United States, a top Kremlin aide said Wednesday, after President Vladimir Putin said it was boosting its nuclear arsenal. “Russia is trying to react to possible threats with some sort of means but that’s it,” Yury Ushakov, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, told...
Putin Says Russia Beefing Up Nuclear Arsenal; NATO Denounces ‘Saber-Rattling’
Kubinka, Russia. President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year, prompting NATO’s chief to accuse Moscow of dangerous “saber-rattling.” Putin made his announcement a day after Russian officials denounced a US plan to station tanks and heavy...
Russia to get 40 new intercontinental missiles this year
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center left, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center right, arrive for the opening of the Army-2015 international military show in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Putin said Tuesday the Russian military will receive 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year capable of piercing...
Paris Air Show: Boeing racks up orders for its 737
Visitors watch an Airbus A380 during a demonstration flight of the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget airport, north of Paris, Monday, June 15, 2015. Some 300,000 aviation professionals and spectators are expected at this week’s Paris Air Show, coming from around the world to make business deals and see dramatic displays of aeronautic prowess...
Airbus, Boeing announce US$20bn in orders as Paris Air Show takes off
Airbus and Boeing got their sales war off to a flying start at the world’s premier air show near Paris on Monday with nearly US$20 billion in orders. President Francois Hollande inaugurated the week-long Paris Air Show, which is expected to draw 315,000 visitors and 2,260 exhibitors from 47 countries.France-based Airbus, which usually...
Malaysia Airlines Makes Emergency Landing in Melbourne
Sydney. A Malaysia Airlines flight returned safely to Melbourne on Friday, having turned back within minutes of take-off after an engine fire alert went off, Air Services Australia said. “There was an emergency declared, there was an ‘engine fire’ alert in the cabin. The plane proceeded to dump the fuel and returned to land and it landed...
